— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

Perhaps … now that the U.S. area is probably "abgephisht" (German-English word game, roughly meaning : "fished off" and, as a consequence, empty due to too much fishing), perhaps they are now turning towards E.U. ?
I wonder because this is the very first one I get since many, many years.

— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

I once read that someone opened up an Apple Store in China - only that it was never licensed by Apple.
Thy just copied everything.

— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

I once read that someone opened up an Apple Store in China - only that it was never licensed by Apple.
Thy just copied everything.

Haha yeah that one was a little bit more widespread than just someone opening one fake store. Chinese Authorities found 22 fake apple stores in just one Chinese city. The thing I find really interesting about this story though is that there were 0 real Apple Stores in that city, yet 22 fake ones were able to operate with quite a bit of business. That tells me maybe Apple is pretty aweful at figuring out where to expand and should seek out successful fake Apple Stores and buy out their location and staff rather than sue - at least rather than suing all of them.

There's also a fake Disney Land, but it went out of business and is now more of a depressing post-apocalyptic version instead of a believable fake.

I get e-mails like that for my bank account, ebay, facebook, and any number of other services that I use or don't use. At this point if I ever got a legitimate e-mail about a real problem with something, I'd completely ignore it and assume it was fake.

— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)